Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

The book-keeping of benefits is simple: it is all expenditure; if any one returns it, that is clear gain; if he does not return it, it is not lost, I gave it for the sake of giving.

Seneca the Younger

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• People hear the examples of kids who work when they're young, have bad experiences, and then have a rough life after that, but a lot of it is just about the people around you.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• Insight enables you make sure you don't allow negative beliefs to get permanently set in your thinking - just the same way you wouldn't want fractured bones to be permanently set into place.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Thinking
  • Want
  • Negative

• Most of the media... is positioning the merger with Compaq and the recent actions by Walter Hewlett and David Packard as a fight between the past and the future.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Future
  • Past
  • Fight

• Practically, I am interested in television because it keeps me home and it's fast, and I exist in independent films mostly, and you don't get paid for those, or you don't get paid enough.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Home
  • Independent
  • Television

• My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • World
  • Different

• It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Law
  • Religion
  • Slavery

• Afghanistan has moved forward and Afghanistan will defend itself. And the progress that we have achieved, the Afghan people will not allow it to be put back or reversed.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • People
  • Progress
  • Forward

• I carry around, like, a little journal with me and just write all the time. Not necessarily, like, actually sitting down and writing lyrics - just freeform writing, whatever's going on in my mind. I write a lot on airplanes, actually, because it's completely isolating.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Mind

• I used to play the trombone and the trumpet, which I still have, but I haven't picked up for a long time.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• It's my job, too, to keep up with pop culture and what the kids are into 'cause you don't want to sound like an old man trying to write for kids. I spend a lot of my time spying on them.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Up
  • Time
  • Trying

• I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Believe
  • Movies
  • Million

• Our experiences of the Solstice depends entirely upon where we are when it occurs. Neither Solstice encompasses everyone. Neither can. The Solstices stand forever opposed, literally at the two poles of our Earth and experiences.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Earth
  • Forever
  • Stand

• When you're a fighter, and you're not doing good in your work, that happens - you lost the fight.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Good
  • Work
  • Lost

• When you experience a failure as a leader, don't hide it - talk about it. Your missed opportunity will encourage others to take risks.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Experience
  • Opportunity
  • Failure

• There should be no one place or even a group of places where you should be. quote, 1969

  

  Carl Andre

• Genetic determinism... On its interpretation depends the entire relation between biology and the social sciences.

  

  E. O. Wilson

• I'm quite happy being myself. I'm a big fan of Jessica Lange and Jeanne Moreau, but I don't want to be anyone else.

  

  Jacqueline Bisset
  • Happy

• When sparrows build and the leaves break forth, My old sorrow wakes and cries.

  

  Jean Ingelow

• When I was going through sad times, I'd watch 'Cheers' at the end of the day to make me feel better.

  

  Mary Steenburgen
  • Sad

• Kids love robots. They're this fanciful, cool thing.

  

  Cynthia Breazeal
  • Kids
  • Cool

• Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that.

  

  Rick Moody
  • Should
  • Reflect
  • Impotence

• Rian Johnson's 'Looper' is inventive, entertaining, and thought-provoking in every way a movie can be. It is in fact the kind of movie that reminds us why we watch them and make them, a beautifully told story that deserves to be not only remembered, but acknowledged for its writing.

  

  Jason Reitman
  • Writing
  • Why
  • Movie

• Should I string her up or strangle her in bed, suffocate that venomous head? Or perhaps I'll just whip her to death. Listen, do me a favor, kill my wife.

  

  Rod Stewart
  • Relationship
  • Wife
  • Should

• The book-keeping of benefits is simple: it is all expenditure; if any one returns it, that is clear gain; if he does not return it, it is not lost, I gave it for the sake of giving.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Book
  • Giving
  • Simple